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New from cpcsc.info---Planetary Distress Signal Campaign and 1000 Community Visioning Initiatives Campaign

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research for critical challenge alerts, and support for collaborative problem solving initiatives which seek to ma

Supporting Social Enterprise in Bristol, UK

Social enterprise is growing in the region of Bristol and Bath, in the UK.

Rural-Urban Partnerships An Integrated Approach to Economic Development

This report provides a framework to understand the changing relationships between urban and rural areas.

33 Resilient Cities Announced by Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation has announced its list of 33 resilent cities selected for a new Network; each will receive four kinds of support:

Social marketing experiment results in significant carbon reductions

A targeted social marketing approach for community pro-environmental behavioural change

Getting the Engagement of Local Institutions in the UN Development Agenda Post-2015

Below are excerpts from the summary of this paper by the Human Settlements Group

of the UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). David Satterthwaite, Sheridan Bartlett, Yves Cabannes and Donald Brown prepared this for UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments) with support from The Development Partners Working Group on Decentralisation and Local Governance – DeLoG. Full paper available here.

Invitation Package to Possible Board of Advisors (at www.cpcsc.info)

New from the Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative (Nov. 2013):

The Agenda 21 for Culture

Infographic: Hometown Advantage

In an effort to rejuvenate struggling local economies and empower small business to compete with big business, political figures and organizations have begun to popularize “buy local” m

Green Economy at Community Scale

For the most part, explorations of the green economy have until now mostly

Unpacking BC's Proposed Water Sustainability Act

This is the first of four pieces in this Tyee series prepared by Ecojustice.

Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints

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The Cities That Climate Change Will Hit First

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Climate justice community voices in blogs and websites, not media

A protracted age of oil: pipelines, refineries and quiet conflict

Norwegian counties have huge potential to coordinate multi-level action

Multi-level coordination of climate change adaptation: by national hierarchical steering or by regional network governance?

The Cost of Sprawl

A new report from Sustainable Prosperity, "Suburban Sprawl: Exposing Hidden Costs, Identifying Innovations", says it’s time to expose

Toolkit for Resilient Cities

Since 2012, Siemens, Arup, and the Regional Plan Association, an urban research and advocacy organization, have been exploring ways to enhance and ensure the resilience of critical urban infrastruc

The City Energy Efficiency Scorecard

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has released the

Climate action planning shows compact new housing scenario could reduce GHG emissions by over one-third

Assessing energy use and greenhouse gas emission savings from compact housing: a small-town case study

"Green conservative" politics important to creating political legitimacy

Legitimacy for climate policies: politics and participation in the Green City of Freiburg

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